Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1887-06-27
Jay GouId's New Car.

Until three weeks ago Millionaire Jay
Gould mas not had the luxury Of having q
private railway car as his own individual
property. Heretofore re had used the
old Union Pacific car, Convoy, the prop
erty CT the railway company, and reserved
! for the use.Ot the president and directors,
| but as c matter of fact used almost a.
clusively by Mr.. Gould in his long hging
! leaps from enc end Of the country to the
other.
But the Convoy has been assigned 10 8
! back seat now, and in its place he's come
fresh from the Pullman shops end re-
/ splcndent Ill sill the glory Of polished
woods and GlitteriOg mirrors, the beGuti-
! full car ATLANTA, named for Mr., GOu!d's
| feet footed yacht, and, like the yacht, Mr.
Gould's private property. The ATLANTA
was turned out Of the Pullman shops in
Chicago three weeks sgO, and brought to
the Pennsylvania Railway station IN Je.-
sey City, where it now stands. Mr.. Gould
has not yet seen his new purchase. 1t
was completed just after DC set on. on his
recent yacht voyage, and it's owner has
not yet had opportunity TO inspect IL.
The Atalanta is remarkable in that il is
by h2if loot the longest car ever turned
cut c! .he Pullman shops. II Is seventy
feet long and weighs $4,000 pounds. The
average weight OF the Pull
man cars is 10000 pounds. The
Atalanta rests on siX-Whecl trucks, the
wheels being Of paper and fOrty-two
inches ia diameter. II was Mr.. Gould's
direction that special pains should be
taken to give the car strength and stead
mess Of motion, ard everything to this
end thst modern ingenuity has devised
was turned to account In It's construction.
The interior appointments Of the
AtSlangl are remarkable for their massive
richness and total freedom from gaIish
display. II one end OF the car is the
observation room. This is an apartment
eleven feet SIX inches in length by niue
feet in width. Ii is furnished with two
essy CnaiTs and sofa upholstered iH
bronze six plush, and IS covered BY q
thick velvet carpet. On the sides are
racks for wraps, aud over the sofa On
upper berth is tucked away so deity
into the bulkLeGd IS to be
hGTdly noticeable, but it can be let down
and made into q comfortable bed,
TIE door OUT of the observation room
opens into a private bed room, which in
turn opens by double Slididg doors into q
second private bed room. Both these
rooms are furnished with folding beds,
ana have private toilet rooms. When the
doors are throw open the room makes s
handsome parlor eighteen feet in length |
by seven in width. Il is finished IL satin
wood and is upholstered in blue Sill |
plush. The observation room is fur |
nished in mahogany. Back Of the private |
bed rooms comes the dining room, flush |
ed in heavily carved oak and unholstgred, |
like the observation room, in bronze silk |
plush. The dining room is fourteen feet |
long by nine in width. In the center is |
az Oaken extension table, and the bulk /
head separating it from the next apart |
meEt is richly carved in open spindle !
work The mex. apartment simply con- !
tains, one on each side OF the car, two /
Pullman sleeping berths. After |
this apartment comes toilet room, : re- |
frigerator, Two OeTtbs for q porter and !
cook, and tie kitchen. The ends of tins /
car are furnished with closed platforms, |
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